ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2712, 17 January 1910, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

ACCIDENT ON THE WAIKAXAE BEACH. A rather severe accident occurred at the Waikanae beach yesterday morning. Amongst the large crowd of bathers were several youths, and some of their number accepted a tow line from a motor launch which came quite close in. The launch proceeded along, and in order to save himself from being run down by it a lad named Frederick McKinstry caught hold of the side and was carried along. Unfortunately he was close to the exhaust pipe, and as lie was getting burned, lie shifted his position to the stern of the vessel, but in doing so his left foot was drawn into the propeller, which inflicted a terrible gash. The lad was conveyed to his home in Carnarvon street, where lie was attended bv Drs. Reeve and Young, who put- over twenty stitches in the wound. Melvins try is the bugle r attaelied to the Gisborne Rifle Corps. DEATH UNDER CHLOROFORM. rPEr. Press Association.] WANGANUI, Jan. 16. Mi-s Matthews, a voting married woman about 22 years old, residing in Dublin Street, died while under chloroform in dental/'rooms on Saturday afternoon. A doctor was present. SUDDEX DEATHS IN, CHRISTCHURCH. CHRISTCHURCH. Jan. 16. Elizabeth Beresford, forty years of age, unmarried, died suddenly' on Saturday night, and at- the inquest today a verdict was recorded, after medical and other evidence had been heard, of death from cerebral apoplexy. Annie Lynn, the eiglit-months-old child of James Lynn, of Sydenham, died suddenly this morning. The cause of death is supposed to have been whooping cough. A FATAL FALL DOWNSTAIRS. DUNEDIN, Jan. 16. On Saturday evening a foreigner named Christian Yecbt-, about- 67 years of age, fell down the steep and narrow staircase of a boarding bouse in McLaggan Street-, at- which lie had been lodging, and was so severely injured that lie died before medical assistance could be obtained. - A SINGULAR DEATH. Mary Ann Sinclair, 13 years of age. apparently in the best of health, died suddenly yesterday. At the inquest this morning the medical ertdence was that death was caused bv embolism, the result- of the bursting of a hydatid. A verdict was returned accordingly.